It was a strange beast that looked like a griffin drawn by someone on drugs. It had a body of a lion and leather bat-like wings… there the similarities ended. The beast's tail was that of a scorpion and ended with a stinger that almost dripped venom. Instead of a lion's muzzle, the monster had features that were creepily close to a human face, but with sharp teeth of a predator.
I tried to remember if Rosha or Yvenna told me about monsters like these, and something sprang to my mind. It fit a description of a mantichora, a more chaotic version of griffins. Its venom was deadly, and the monster itself fairly powerful. With how high in the mountains it lived, though, the meetings with it were rare.
back to random encounters, i suppose